SCOTUS Takes Up Obstruction Charge Appeal for J6 Defendant - Could Be Huge for Trump and Others

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : "[Section] 1512(c)(2) ...seems an unlikely candidate to extend obstruction law into new realms of political speech."
36% : A former Virginia police sergeant, Thomas Robertson, who was convicted of that charge, used that defense in his case, albeit unsuccessfully....that Congress' work on Jan. 6 was outside the fundamental scope of the law.
29% : Further, the courts' historical definition of "corruptly" - requiring an individual intentionally breaking the law in an effort to "obstruct" something - had been stretched in Robertson's case to encompass social media posts.

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